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• Surface mining equipment —   An Auger machine is a large, horizontal drill, generally 3 feet or more in diameter and up to about 100 feet long. It can remove coal at a rate of more than 25 tons per minute.   A bucket wheel excavator is a continuous digging machine equipped …   Energy terms

• Dump digging — Digging in an old dump in Meaford, Ontario Dump digging is the practice of locating and excavating old garbage dumps with the intent of discovering objects which have potential value as collectibles or antiques.[1] These dumps are sometimes… …   Wikipedia

• Clam digging — Clam digger redirects here. For the trouser style, see Three quarter pants. Clam digging in Haneda, 1937 Clam digging is a common means of harvesting clams from below the surface of the tidal mud flats where they live. It is done both… …   Wikipedia

• Dig Dug: Digging Strike — Publisher(s) Namco Platform(s) Ninten …   Wikipedia

• Near-surface geophysics — is the use of geophysical methods to investigate small scale features in the shallow (tens of meters) subsurface. It is closely related to applied geophysics or exploration geophysics. Methods used include seismic refraction and reflection,… …   Wikipedia

• Apollo 15, Lunar surface — Apollo 15 Commander David Scott and Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin spent three days on the Moon and a total of 18½ hours outside the spacecraft on lunar extra vehicular activity. The mission was the first not to land in a lunar mare, instead… …   Wikipedia

• Kangaroo rat — This article is about the American animal. For the Australian animal, see Hopping mouse. Not to be confused with the genus Aepyprymnus, known as rat kangaroos. Kangaroo rats Temporal range: Late Pliocene Recent Scientific classificatio …   Wikipedia

• pigroot — /ˈpɪgrut/ (say pigrooht) verb (i) 1. (of a horse, etc.) to plant the forelegs stiffly down and kick up with the hind legs. 2. Obsolete to extract gold by surface digging rather than by the systematic sinking of shafts, thus undermining the… …  

• quartz mining — noun : the mining of gold on veins or ore bodies in place as distinguished from surface digging or washing : underground mining in rock compare placer mining …   Useful english dictionary

• December 2003 nor'easter — Surface weather analysis of the storm on December 7, 2003 The December 2003 New England snowstorm was a severe nor easter that impacted the Eastern United States during the first week of the month. It produced heavy snowfall throughout the New… …   Wikipedia

• mining — /muy ning/, n. 1. the act, process, or industry of extracting ores, coal, etc., from mines. 2. the laying of explosive mines. [1250 1300; ME: undermining (walls in an attack); see MINE2, ING1] * * * I Excavation of materials from the Earth s… …   Universalium